what non-online/non-electronic games do you like to play?
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what non-online/non-electronic games do you like to play?
- strategy games, like settlers of cataan, carcassone, ticket to ride
- traditional board games, like monopoly, life, sorry
- card games, like bridge, gin rummy, hearts
- tile games, like mah jong, dominoes
- word games, like scrabble and its variants
- drinking games, like quarters, zoom schwartz, beer pong
- mind games, like
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I am an avid Board Game player. I have well over a hundred different board games, so many that we haven't even gotten to play half of them yet. We also have a dedicated board game table. My favorites include Betrayal at House on the Hill, Roll for the Galaxy, and Pandemic. I also play some computer games but much less frequently. I already sit in front of a computer all day for work, I don't want that to be what I do in most of my free time.
I play dominoes (bones). I grew up playing with my grandpa, then with friends from the neighborhood, and now occasionally at this one city park on the east side of town where old-schoolers like to hang out at the picnic tables, play a few rounds, and talk about life back in the day. It's therapeutic. There's always plenty of trash talk about each other's ideas, politics, or even haircuts and footwear, but nobody gets mad. It's all in good fun. Not like online, where people always seem 500% more likely to become angry or offended. Please don't mistake that as a passive aggressive reference to interactions on this forum. I'm just speaking in general.
I've never been an online gamer for the same reason @Ginnungagap mentioned. During my off time, I just want to unplug. I was attracted to this game because I'm a fan of the story, and playing it still feels sort of like unplugging because it encourages me to go out an explore my surroundings. It seems like a perfectly healthy way to spend some of my free time that I might otherwise spend sitting on the couch, watching something on Netflix.
However, I have come to the conclusion that spending any amount of time sharing and/or defending my opinions about a silly mobile game in an online message forum defeats the purpose of playing the game to begin with (unplugging), and isn't very healthy at all. I'm a little embarrassed for having been sucked into it, to be honest.
I'll continue to play the game while I'm walking around, and I'll check in here occasionally for details about updates or known issues, but I think it's better to save my random jokes and opinions for bones at the park. 😉
@Acumen I advise you to consider ignoring him and staying. Don’t bite when he goads you. Be like Mr.T.
@Acumen ditto on what @Dewin99 said. Although I'm not sure what Mr. T has to do with it 🤣
wow, this thread OP literally asks what games folks play, and that’s it. some folks here are either thread-jackers or players of the last category listed in OP (and the contrarian in them would respond that they are both)
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btw, thanks to the folks who actually responded to the question. we always are looking for good non-electronic/non-online games to play, and there are good game suggestions here to investigate.
Board games: agree with Betrayal on House Hill, Escape is a great co-op that takes 30min tops but really gets the adrenaline going, organ attack, telestrations, and too many others to note
Computer : Borderlands series as it is the only game that my partner and I play together and we can couch co-op.
But mostly too much time trying to rehab from a car accident to play, hence this game to help with walking again.
There’s not many that I play. But the monopoly card game is fun.
googled betrayal at house on the hill
this was first video search result:
lol, took me a while to figure out it was in jest, but still funny
good suggestion in keeping with october events in HPWU and halloween generally 👍🏼
btw, if i had to recommend just 1 game, it would be ticket to ride (european edition with “train stations” is less cutthroat than american edition without; do get the expansion pack)
scrabble is always great, though my skills have declined due to the words with friends 2 app
Not a big games person, never really liked board games apart from some Scrabble with my grandparents. The only ones I own are two versions of Fluxx (Monty Python and Cthulhu) and Cthulhu Dice.
Where videogames are concerned, I've played Warcraft 3, Torchlight and Overlord 2. Due to a slightly obsessive behaviour, I try to avoid them.